Peterb's new, revised 2012
- gemhunter178
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Nice looking bunch of cacti you have there! (...and as always I see the Ariocarpus retusus first (in the first picture))
A cactus and succulent collector who especially likes Ariocarpus. …Though I have a bit of everything! Want some pictures? See my flickr! I also do art and such.
- Peterthecactusguy
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Love all of them, PeterB.
BTW I noticed that my repotted Peniocereus has new growth on it. Yay!
BTW I noticed that my repotted Peniocereus has new growth on it. Yay!
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
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Flowers pictures are great, but it's also nice to see just random plant shots (especially the different forms of Peniocereus ).
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- different angle
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- rosei spines thrown out in full sun.
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- sunburned rosei, just moved to more shade a few days ago.
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- new growth on viperinus
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- the ugly duckling maculatus cutting.
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- newest additions: cuixmalensis seedlings sown back in Jan.
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- a little closer.
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- Minime8484
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Nice collection of Penio's!
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Yikes. That is one ugly maculatus! Nice overview. It's crazy how that johnstonii stem can support itself.
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Amazing stuff as always, Peter. Gives me something to aim for with my seed growing. I hope to start some Toumeya seeds soon.
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thanks, the Penio group is not everyone's cup of tea. Greg, yeah, the stem is rather woody, different structure from the more soft tropical kinds.
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Freaky cotyledon on that one cuixmalensis. It almost looks like animal flesh .
- Peterthecactusguy
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yes but I can't wait for mine to bloom. I still have mine in a pot and I bring it in for the winter, I Think BCC winter would kill it.
Here's to you, all you insidious creatures of green..er I mean cacti.
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Some seedling pics from the January 24th sowing. I have to move them gradually into more light. It is always so challenging here without a greenhouse or prop chamber to get them the right amount of sunlight. I have to be careful to place them somewhere outside where they will get only about 20% more light, not too much, but enough to start toughing them up a little. I have been experimenting with growing them soft for a while until they bulk up. We'll see if it works.
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- echinocereus mapimiensis, already a very distinctive caramel brown color
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- Mammillaria viridiflora, still beet red even in shade. hmmmm.
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healthy and beefy looking seedlings peter!
With apologies to the late Professor C. D. Darlington the following misquotation springs to
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
mind ‘cactus taxonomy is the pursuit of the impossible by the incompetent’ - Fearn & Pearcy, Rebutia (1981)
Re: Peterb's new, revised 2012
Well, there hasn't been much to report from sunny, hot Phoenix over the past month or so. It is high summer and most of the plants are asleep. A 4 year old Mammillaria tetrancistra from seed collected near Florence AZ flowers today, as they usually do, right after any significant (.3" or more) summer rain. I have never seen a tetrancistra flower before, as I don't generally visit their habitat during the summer "monsoons."
also, a pic of a bee who had too hard of a landing on an Echinocereus coccineus.
peterb
ps- oops, spoke too soon. a few other things are in flower today also.
also, a pic of a bee who had too hard of a landing on an Echinocereus coccineus.
peterb
ps- oops, spoke too soon. a few other things are in flower today also.
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- large form of Mammillaria grahamii, also from near Florence.
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- amazing style and delicate stigma lobes on the tet.
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- ouch
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- always pretty Obregonia.
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- Epithelantha species. set fruit for the very first time this year.
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- outrageous flowers of Mammillaria yaquensis.
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- Turbinicarpus.
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- Minime8484
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Re: Peterb's new, revised 2012
Nice flowers!! REALLY love that M. yaquensis!
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a couple more pics from today, hot and humid with rain the past couple of nights.
peterb
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- M. yaquensis putting out rings of flowers.
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